Search results for “[Subject: customs-traditions]”

• Author(s): Linda Bernardi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Strategic PlanningWhy companies need to move away from a “product first” orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.In the past, com...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Emma Woo Louie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Minority Studies - General The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration bega...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Wynn Wilcox • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends th...

• Author(s): Éric Rebillard | Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings | Jeanine Routier-Pucci • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeIn this provocative book �ric Rebillard challenges many l...

• Author(s): Anne E. Lester • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryIn Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieva...

• Author(s): Kees Dorst • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Decision Making & Problem SolvingHow organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked p...

• Author(s): Mikael Hard | Andrew Jamison • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThis book examines the broad range of social and intellectualresponses to technology in the first four decades...

• Author(s): Kristina Hook • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralInteraction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire d...

• Author(s): Rudiger Bittner • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy Vieles, was wir tun, tun wir aus Gründen. Was aber sind diese Gründe? Gegen die gängige Lehre, wonach es sich um geisti...

• Author(s): Roland Littlewood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralPsychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European ...

• Author(s): Andrew Moravcsik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThe creation of the European Community ranks among the most extraordinary achievements in mo...

• Author(s): Diana Raffman • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationThe first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge.Taking a...

• Author(s): Joseph Martin Hernon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - GeneralA take-off of Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage", which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown a...

• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell UP • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian ...

• Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative ac...

• Author(s): Donald MacKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other s...

• Author(s): David Lewis Schaefer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersThis provocative book provides a comprehensive interpretation of Montaigne's Essays as a work of...

• Author(s): Larry Hirschhorn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management ScienceOne critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they are expected to bring more of themselves psychologically ...

• Author(s): Douglas T. Northrop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaDrawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconst...

• Author(s): George Baker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy,...

• Author(s): Charles K. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaNorth Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repe...

• Author(s): El Hadji Malick Ndiaye | Moussa Sow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bo...

• Author(s): Ning Wang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAfter Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957?58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the st...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryThe history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform...

• Author(s): Doug Underwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism The debate surrounding "fake news" versus "real" news is nothing new. From Jonathan Swift's work as an acerbic, anon...

• Author(s): Mathius E. Mnyampala | Gregory Maddox • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralA reconstruction of the history and customs of the Gogo people of Africa, based in part on oral histories, tribal legends and...